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Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 3:27 am
by epilogue
Conclave
That was pretty great. Way beyond my expectations.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 3:29 am
by dimejinky99
epilogue wrote:Conclave
That was pretty great. Way beyond my expectations.
Watch the andor trailer you coward
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 3:33 am
by epilogue
dimejinky99 wrote:epilogue wrote:Conclave
That was pretty great. Way beyond my expectations.
Watch the andor trailer you coward
I did already!
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 3:38 am
by dimejinky99
epilogue wrote:dimejinky99 wrote:epilogue wrote:Conclave
That was pretty great. Way beyond my expectations.
Watch the andor trailer you coward
I did already!
Well post about it! In the relevant thread of course. We can’t be having with thread drift.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 2:21 pm
by VinylGuy
epilogue wrote:Conclave
That was pretty great. Way beyond my expectations.
it is better than i expected but its also one of those movies i will forget completely in 6 months.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 2:41 pm
by epilogue
VinylGuy wrote:epilogue wrote:Conclave
That was pretty great. Way beyond my expectations.
it is better than i expected but its also one of those movies i will forget completely in 6 months.
I think it might stick for me. I was really engaged. Excellent performances. Incredible score. And it's gorgeously shot. Feels like a crime that it isn't nominated for Best Cinematography.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 2:44 pm
by VinylGuy
i liked it enough but the Cinematography felt too tv-ish for me. I was surprised they could use all those real backdrops and i really cant remember much after two months that i saw it.
I kinda felt like a very by the numbers approach to it, and i would have killed for a more creative one.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 2:54 pm
by dimejinky99
Substance over style VG
These are people that wear silk slippers and silk underwear.
You don’t need to go all laa dee dah with the camerawork. It would be overkill.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 4:38 pm
by VinylGuy
aesthetic are everything to me in terms of filmmaking.
And the thing i did loved about Conclave was that it didnt took itself serious. Its a very campy pulpy mystery dressed as a church drama. Thats the best thing of the movie in my opinion.
Of course, Finnes and lithgow are great too.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 4:57 pm
by Jorge
Conclave's real aesthetic strengths are in its wide shots, which are uniformly gorgeous and use lighting in creative ways to comment on the story and characters. The close-ups and two-shots can be a little drab and sometimes even underexposed. Still head and shoulders above most of the stuff we see on the big screen these days.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 5:00 pm
by Farmer John
Yes, there were at least a few wide shots that looked so good I had to pause the movie so I could admire them.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 5:03 pm
by VinylGuy
they mostly look good because of the location.
Oliver Stone puts it better:
¨My only quibble is, to get access to the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel, etc., and then light it so dimly was a disappointment¨
Roger Deakins also said:
¨RM opinions about films are mostly a travesty¨
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 5:06 pm
by VinylGuy
Jorge wrote:Conclave's real aesthetic strengths are in its wide shots, which are uniformly gorgeous and use lighting in creative ways to comment on the story and characters. The close-ups and two-shots can be a little drab and sometimes even underexposed. Still head and shoulders above most of the stuff we see on the big screen these days.
im curious about the last part though...my recent films all looked incredible...Anora, The Monkey, Nosferatu, stuff like Smile 2 or Joker 2...Im about to see The Brutalist in the theatre mainly because of how it looks.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 5:07 pm
by Jorge
For context, I just watched Captain America: Brave New World.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 5:12 pm
by tree_
Continued my Corbet acting journey with a small role in Thirteen and leading role in Simon Killer. I was pretty underwhelmed by both, though there's no doubt he was a very talented actor. I wonder if I should watch Childhood of a Leader next, to finish his directorial work.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 11:16 pm
by VinylGuy
Jorge wrote:For context, I just watched Captain America: Brave New World.
Another Ant Man 3 debacle
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 11:22 pm
by tommy
Watched Runaway Jury this afternoon and now I'm watching The Replacements. Not Hackman's best, but I've never seen them.
Tomorrow night I think I'll watch Mississippi Burning.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu February 27, 2025 11:48 pm
by Jorge
I watched that one a little while ago. Good movie, and looks amazing, but it's crazy how they fully refused to give a single black character anything resembling a personality.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Fri February 28, 2025 12:12 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Fri February 28, 2025 12:16 am
by tommy
The Replacements is extremely corny and stupid, but an hour in I'm kinda loving it.